Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping: Management Techniques for Pheasant and Partridge

* A comprehensive guide on how to raise pheasants and red-leg partridges * Choosing the breeding stock, incubating the eggs, rearing the chicks to release, and nurturing the game through the start of the shooting season * A hands-on, practical, step-by-step guide that draws on a wide range of accepted best practice * Advice on rearing game in a low-cost and efficient manner, without compromising quality and ensuring the welfare of the birds

The author was brought up on a working farm and country shooting estate. She spent her childhood working with hunt horses and flat racers and helping out the gamekeeper. She graduated with BA hons. from York University, then achieved a post graduate MSc taken at Warwick University. Following a career in management she had a serious car crash, resulting in many orthopaedic injuries, which caused her to give up work and re-focus. She became a magistrate in 1999 and has served on a Bench in the Midlands ever since. Following a move with her husband to a small shooting estate, they now concentrate on rearing pheasants and red-leg partridges, with their activities mostly being confined to running the estate and maintaining their rough shoot.